Mr Patel struggled with the raider, Justin Conway, and the plastic gun broke in two. |
He made over 40 parachute jumps while serving as a rifle platoon leader, battalion adjutant, and commander of a raider platoon. |
In October another shopworker was subjected to a similar ordeal by a knife-wielding raider. |
The five-year-old won very snugly indeed, with Bongo Fury second and another Irish raider, Al Eile, coming back to his best staying on for third. |
The raider was brandishing a weapon which gardai have refused to be more specific about. |
Nevertheless, they recovered the stolen paintings almost undamaged and put the raider behind bars in little over a year. |